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Spammers feast on ANI vulnerability

Wed, April 04

Spammers feast on ANI vulnerability

By Matt Hines

Excerpt:

"‘Since the .ANI flaw is present on so many relevant Microsoft products, botnet herders will likely flock to take advantage of the flaw,’ said Max Caceres, director of product management at penetration testing specialists Core Security, based in Boston …

"‘One reason why spammers are interested is because a lot of the underground community takes advantage of botnets to relay their work, and this is great for building huge bontets since it works on every version of Windows that you care about,’ Caceres said. ‘With the potential to exploit it directly from Outlook, this is great for compromising a huge variety of users, and once it's made part of botnet, it also becomes a huge asset for all kinds of spammers.’"